Fond Memories & Unimaginable Disaster

Learn how fond memories can help you survive an unimaginable natural disaster.

When Merri and I visit Oregon to see my mom, sister, daughter, son-in law (and webmaster) plus the grand kids, the first thing we do is jump in the car and head for the coast. On our way we pass Twin Rocks.

Twin Rocks, Oregon.

This is home of the Friends Twin Rock Lodge.

I was raised in Portland in a Quaker family so each summer we went to Bible school at this lodge.

We slept in Hadley Hall, built in the 1930s.

We had some fun. For example we would all hold onto a rope and wade out quite deep into the surf. Then we would hike down these railroad tracks to Rockaway’s salt water pools.

Plus I learned to fish and swim, unsupervised, here on Spring Lake. I suspect that children today do not get these freedoms now.

Honestly, I think I hated it and was homesick most of the time. Now when I drive by the reflections are that it was the greatest time in the world! We often look at the “good old days” with rose colored glasses.

Unimaginable Disaster. Now let me share why this camp may be one of the most dangerous places in the world, how that danger may very well affect you wherever you live and… what to do about it.

I first became aware of the disaster potential years ago in a 2003 National Geographic article (1) that said: The chances of another earthquake occurring along the Cascadia fault is “100 percent,” said Kelin Wang of the Geological Survey of Canada, who is also a co-author of the report. “The question is when, and whether the entire length of the subduction zone will rupture like in 1700.”

Okay, so there might be an earthquake. So what’s the big deal?

Last week’s New Yorker article “The Really Big One” (2) reminded me what’s big about this problem. This article explains how a Cascadia earthquake has the potential to create some of the greatest loss of human life and property, ever.

The article states that this earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. There is no question about this. The only question is when.

The Cascadia subduction zone is so big, it runs for seven hundred miles off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, beginning near Cape Mendocino, California, and running up to Vancouver Island, Canada.

When the next very big Cascadia earthquake hits, the northwest edge of the USA and Canada from California to Vancouver will drop by as much as six feet and rebound thirty to a hundred feet to the west. A Tsunami can leave the region unrecognizable. FEMA’s Region X, are operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.

Native American legends from the Huu-ay-aht First Nation in British Columbia, have passed down through seven generations. All the land of Vancouver Island sank at once and all there were drowned. Another NW tribal story tells how all the water receded from Washington State’s Neah Bay, then suddenly poured back in, inundating the entire region. Those who survived later found canoes hanging from the trees. These stories all range back to around 1700.

Stein confirms that these stories are well founded. Research on ocean sediment from the past ten thousand years shows that the Pacific Northwest has experienced forty-one subduction-zone earthquakes in that time or on average every two hundred and forty-three years.

The danger in two hundred forty year cycles is that an entire civilization can be built on top of the continent’s worst fault line.

The two-hundred-and-forty-three-year cycle has another problem. There has not been a major earthquake for three hundred and fifteen years.

In such an earthquake, structures up and down the coast will fail. Estimates are that that seventy-five per cent of all structures in Oregon are not designed to withstand a major quake. FEMA calculates that, something on the order of a million buildings will collapse or be ruined. All highway bridges, will fail as well as fifteen of the seventeen of Portland’s bridges spanning the Willamette and Columbia rivers.

All airports, electricity, land and cells phones will be out of service maybe for a month or more.

The shaking from a major 9+ quake will set off ten of thousands of landslides, thirty thousand it is estimated in Seattle alone. Seemingly solid ground will liquify. Fifteen per cent of Seattle is built on liquefiable land.

The biggest damage will be west of the Cascades but there can be some damage as far away as Fort Wayne, Indiana,

OSSPAC estimates that the I-5 corridor will take months to restore electricity, a month to a year to restore drinking water and sewer service, six months to a year to restore major highways, and eighteen months to restore health-care facilities. On the coast, the times are longer.

The tsunami-inundation zone, including the Friends Camp, and my fond memories, will remain all but uninhabitable for years.

An adventure National Geographic article on how to survive a tsunami says that based on historical averages, the southern end of the fault—from Cape Mendocino, California, to Newport, Oregon—has a large earthquake every 240 years for the northern end—from mid-Oregon to mid-British Columbia.

The average “recurrence interval” of the big one is 480 years, according to a recent Canadian study. The north has only half as many quakes which increases the problem. They are more easily forgotten and ignored but tend to be full-size disasters in which the entire fault breaks from end to end.

A science team at Oregon State University calculates that the California–Oregon end of Cascadia’s fault has a 37 percent chance of producing a major earthquake in the next 50 years. The odds are 10 percent that an even larger quake will strike the upper end, in a full-margin rupture, within 50 years. Given that the last big quake was 312 years ago, one might argue that a very bad day on the Cascadia Subduction Zone is ominously overdue. It appears that three centuries of silence along the fault has been entirely misleading. The monster is only sleeping.

This is a problem of time and resource priorities. The earth has been here for billions of years. Humans on the other hand are pretty new, for only thousands of years and our recorded history much less. The brevity of our species creates ignorance that stifles intelligent long term planning.

Plus is planning intelligent if it is dealing with events that might not happen for decades yet? However a Cascadia earthquake could start shaking tomorrow or even 30 seconds from now.

How do we react to a long term never before experienced (by modern civilization) event when water is running out, people cannot afford food and medical care now? What priority does a fifty year future destruction of highways and bridges get when the roads are potholed and bridges already weak?

The chances of the modern political system sorting this out run barely above nil, but there are ways that you and I can be prepared a little by finding value investments that would print from such an event.

This why one of the portfolios that our Purposeful Investing Course will study in real time will be a Survival Portfolio.

We recently launched the “Purposeful Investing” course to help readers learn how to create profitable strategies that combine good value investments with unique, personal goals.

In each Pi lesson includes studies on how to determine value in currencies, how to profit from knowing the 50 golden rules of investing and from real time studies of several portfolios we have created and will track.

These portfolios are based on the creation and management of the Primary Pi Model Portfolio. This is a theoretical portfolio that invests in good value countries through Benchmark Index ETFs.

One of the portfolios is the Disaster Portfolio where we look at ways to make good value investments that will prosper regardless of what happens to Cascadia.

The primary Portfolio is based on the most exciting positive opportunity I have seen since we started sending our reports on international investing ideas more than three decades ago. There is so much more to write and the trends are so clear that I have created a short, but powerful report “Three Currency Patterns For 50% Profits or More.”

This report shows how to earn an extra 50% from currency shifts with even small investments. I kept the report short and simple, but included links to 153 pages of Keppler Asset Stock Market and Asset Allocation Analysis so you can keep this as simple or as deep as you desire.

The report shows 22 good value investments and a really powerful tactic to use that allows you to accumulate these bargains now even in very small amounts (even $5,000). There is extra profit potential of at least 50% so the report is worth a lot.

Order the report for $29.95 or get it FREE

The Pi Disaster Portfolio looks at how to avoid shares that could be ruined by a Cascadia disaster and invests in good value shares that are most likely to be involved in rebuilding the West. For example Boeing, Microsoft and Nike have a lot to lose in the Northwest. Freightliner originally a Portland company (Now Daimler Trucks), will take a hit as they still have a substantial Portland operation but their big output is not in North Carolina and demand for trucks may rise dramatically (a lot of hauling will be going on from East to West).

One of my favorite shares I am researching is Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners. This company operates one of the largest publicly-traded, pure-play renewable power platforms globally. Diversified across 74 river systems and 14 power markets in North America, Latin America and Europe, its portfolio is primarily hydroelectric and totals more than 7,000 megawatts of installed capacity.

The company has seven plants in the Northwest, but has such a huge diversification and energy costs are bound to rise.

German construction and supply companies are likely to do better than Japanese (who would be hit by a tsunami from the Cascadia quake). The Disaster Portfolio will be compiled of good value shares, that are likely to profit even if we never see a Big One in our lives. They will do even better if there is a disaster. Pi’s goal is to help subscribers learn how to create their own strategies by studying these portfolios, real time, as they unfold.

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Enroll in Pi. Get the first monthly issue of Pi, the first five “Golden Rules of Investing” and the report “Three Currency Patterns For 50% Profits or More” right away.

#1: I guarantee you’ll learn ideas about investing that are unique and that can reduce stress as they help you enhance your profits through slow, worry free purposeful investing.

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I pray that the Disaster Portfolio is never required, but pretty good science tells us that mankind will face this disaster some day. I hope to always be able to drive past the Friends Twin Rock Camp, see the unbounding beauty and have fond memories. If so my investments in the Pi Primary Portfolio will help me make trips like this. If not, then the Disaster Portfolio may provide prosperity I can use to help my family and friends in the West.

Gary

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Gain From the Volatility of the Next Four Years

However America’s politics turn out, one thing is sure. There will be volatility in stock markets during the next four years.

The first reason markets will bounce has nothing to do with politics or policies. The market’s downward shift is simply due regardless of the party or the person in office.

Second the new politics will create an uncertain era. Everyone is shaken whether they are pleased with the election or not and nothing frightens markets like uncertainty.

Third we’ll see rising interest rates over the next 48 months. This will push markets down.

Despite these pitfalls, there is a way to profit using the downtrends to pick up good value shares.

During nearly five decades of global investing I have noticed found that good value strategies increase through bull markets and bear, through good presidents and bad. The steps to take are simple.

The first tactic is to seek safety before profit.

We can look at Warren Buffett’s investing strategy as an example. Buffett success is talked about a lot, but rarely does anyone explain how he make so much money. That was the fact until some researchers really stripped his operation bare. They looked at everything and learned the deepest of Buffett’s wealth management secrets. Fortunately they published all in a research paper at Yale University’s website. that reveals important truths about extending wealth.

This research shows that the stocks Buffett chooses are safe (with low beta and low volatility), cheap (value stocks with low price – to – book ratios), and high quality (stocks of companies that are profitable, stable, growing, and with high payout ratios).

The second tactic is to maintain staying power. At times Buffet’s portfolio has fallen, but he has been willing and able to wait long periods for the value to reveal itself and prices to recover.

This chart based on a 45 year portfolio study shows that holding a diversified good value portfolio (based on a good value strategy) for 13 month’s time, increases the probability of outperformance to 70%. However those who can hold the portfolio for five years gain a 88% probability of beating the bellwether in the market and after ten years the probability increases to 97.5%. Time is your friend when you use a good value strategy. The longer you can hold onto a well balanced good value portfolio the better the odds of outstanding success.

The Buffett strategy integrates time and value for safety and profit.

A third tactic is using limited leveraging, tactic in the strategy boosts profit. Buffett leverages his portfolio at a ratio of approximately 1.6 to 1. The Yale published research paper shows the leveraging methods used by Warren Buffett to amass his $50 billion fortune. The researchers found that the returns from Buffett’s investment company, Berkshire Hathaway, far outweighed those achieved by any rival that has operated for 30 years or more. The research shows that neither luck nor magic are involved. Instead, the paper shows that Buffet’s success hinges on using leverage at the rate of 1.6.

To sum up the strategy, Buffet uses limited leverage to invest in large purchases of “cheap, safe, quality stocks”. He limits leverage so he can hold on for very long periods of time, surviving rough periods where others might have been forced into a fire sale or a career shift.

Stated in another way buffet uses logic (buy good value) to have the conviction, wherewithal, and skill to invest with leverage over many decades.

What do we do when we are not Warren Buffett?

May I introduce the Purposeful Investing Course (Pi) for those who want to invest like Warren Buffet, but know they are not. This course is based on my 50 (almost) years of investing experience combined with wisdom gained from some of the world’s best investment managers and economic mathematical scientists.

Enjoy Extending Wealth

Pi’s mission is to make it easy for anyone to create a three point strategy, like Buffett’s even though they do not have a lot of time for or knowledge about investing.

Pi reveals investing secrets and the sciences that make investing easy, safer, less time consuming and increases the chances of profit.

One secret is to invest with a purpose beyond the cash. One tactic as mentioned is staying power. This means not being caught short and having to sell during a period of loss. This also means having enough faith in a strategy that we stick to the plan. When we invest with purpose, doing what we love, we enjoy the process more and are more likely to hold on during down times, when most poor investors panic and sell.

Slow, Worry Free, Good Value Investing

Stress, worry and fear are three of an investor’s worst enemies. They create the Behavior Gap, a trait exhibited by most investors, that causes them to underperform any market sector they choose. The behavior gap is created by natural human responses to fear. Pi helps create profitable strategies that avoid losses from this gap.

Spanning the Behavior Gap

Behavior gaps are among the biggest reasons why so many investors fail. Human evolution makes fear the second most powerful motivator. (Greed is the third.) Fear creates investment losses due to behavior gaps. Fear motivates us more strongly than desire. By nature investors are risk adverse.

Winning investors though embrace risk because they have a plan based on good value.

Purpose is the most powerful motivator, stronger than fear and greed, so a strategy with purpose is the most powerful of all.

Combine your needs and capabilities with good value secrets and the math to back up your value selections through the Pifolio – The Pi Model Portfolio

Lessons from Pi are based on the creation and management of a Primary Pi Model Portfolio, called the Pifolio. There are no secrets about this portfolio except that it ignores the stories (often created by someone with vested interests) and is based entirely on good math.

The Pifolio is a theoretical portfolio of MSCI Country Benchmark Index ETFs that cover all the good value markets using my (almost) 50 years of global experience and my study of the analysis of four mathematical investing geniuses (and friends).

The Pifolio analysis begins with a continual research of international major stock markets that compares their value based on:

#1: Current book to price

#2: Cash flow to price

#3: Earnings to price

#4: Average dividend yield

#5: Return on equity

#6: Cash flow return.

#7: Market history

We follow this research of a brilliant mathematician and have tracked this analysis for over 20 years. This is a complete and continual study of international major and emerging stock markets.

This analysis forms the basis of a Good Value Stock Market Strategy. The analysis is rational, mathematical and does not worry about short term ups and downs. This strategy is easy for anyone to follow and use. Pi reveals the best value markets and provides contacts to managers and analysts and Country Index ETFs so almost anyone can create and follow their own strategy.

A country ETF provides diversification and cost efficiency by spreading one simple, even small investment into a basket of equities in a good value stock market. The costs are low and this type of ETF is one of the hardest for institutions to cheat. Expense ratios for most ETFs are lower than those of the average mutual fund.

Little knowledge, time, management or guesswork are required. The investment is simply a diversified portfolio of good value indices. Investments in an index are like investments in all the shares of a good value market.

Pi matches this mathematical certainty with my fifty years of experience. This opens insights to numerous long term cycles that most investors miss because they have not been investing long enough to see them.

For example in the 1980s, a remarkable set of two economic circumstances helped anyone who spotted them become remarkably rich. Some of my readers made enough to retire. Others picked up 50% currency gains. Then the cycle ended. Warren Buffett explained the importance of this ending in a 1999 Fortune magazine interview. He said: Let me summarize what I’ve been saying about the stock market: I think it’s very hard to come up with a persuasive case that equities will over the next 17 years perform anything like—anything like—they’ve performed in the past 17!

I did well then, but always thought, “I should have invested more!” Now those circumstances have come together and I am investing in them again.

The circumstances that created fortunes 30 years ago were an overvalued US market (compared to global markets) and an overvalued US dollar.

The two conditions are in place again! There are currently ten good value (non US) developed markets, plus 10 good value emerging markets.

Pi shows how to easily create a diversified, worry free portfolio in some of these good value markets using Country Index ETFs.

The current strength of the US dollar is a second remarkable similarity to 30 years ago. The dollar rose along with Wall Street. Profits came quickly over three years. Then the dollar dropped like a stone, by 51% in just two years. A repeat of this pattern is growing and could create up to 50% extra profit if we start using strong dollars to accumulate good value stock market ETFs in other currencies.

This is the most exciting opportunity I have seen since we started sending our reports on international investing ideas more than three decades ago. There is so much more to write and the trends are so clear that I have created a short, but powerful report “Three Currency Patterns For 50% Profits or More.” This report shows how to earn an extra 50% from currency shifts with even small investments. I kept the report short and simple, but included links to 153 pages of Good Value Stock Market research and Asset Allocation Analysis.

The report shows 20 good value investments and a really powerful tactic that shows the most effective and least expensive way to accumulate these bargains in large or even very small amounts (less than $5,000). There is extra profit potential of at least 50% so the report is worth a lot.

This report sells for $29.95 but you’ll receive the report “Three Currency Patterns For 50% Profits or More” FREE when you subscribe to Pi.

Leverage

Pi also explains when leverage provides extra potential without undo risk. For example in 1986 I issued a report called “The Silver Dip” that showed how to borrow 12,000 British pounds (at almost 1.6 to 1 dollars per pound the loan created US$18,600) and use the loan to buy 3835 ounces of silver at around US$4.85 an ounce.

Silver had crashed, I mean really crashed from $48 per ounce. As prices decreased from early 1983 into 1986, total supply had fallen to 449.7 million ounces in 1986. Mine production was restricted by the low prices at this time, with silver reaching a low for this period of $4.85 in May 1986. Secondary recovery also was constricted by these low prices.

Then silver’s price skyrocketed to over $11 an ounce within a year. The $18,600 loan was now worth $42,185.

The loan was in pounds and in May 1986 the dollar pound rate was 1.55 dollars per pound. So the 12,000 pound loan purchased $18,600 of silver. The pound then crashed to 1.40 dollars per silver. The loan could be paid off for $13,285 immediately creating an extra $5,314 profit. The profit grew to $47,499 in just a year.

Conditions for the silver dip have returned. The availability of low cost loans and silver are at an all time low. The price of silver has crashed from nearly $50 an ounce to below $14 as did shares of the iShares Silver ETF (SLV).

(Click on chart from Google.com (1) to enlarge.) Imagine investing in a spike like this… with leverage!

At the same time the silver gold ratio hit 80, a strong sign to invest in precious metals.

I have updated a special report “Silver Dip 2016” about a leveraged silver speculation that can increase the returns in a safe portfolio by as much as eight times. The purpose of the report is to share long term lessons gained through 30 years of speculating and investing in precious metals. While working on the report, when the gold silver ratio slipped to 80 and the price of silver dropped below $14 an ounce, I knew I needed to share this immediately.

I released a new report “Silver Dip 2015” so readers were able to take advantage of these conditions and leverage 1.6 times as a speculation. That report generated profits as high as 212% and a revised 2017 issue has been produced.

“The Silver Dip 2106” sells for $39.95 but you receive “Silver Dip 2017” FREE when you subscribe to Pi.

Save

Subscribe to the first year of The Personal investing Course (Pi). The annual fee is $299, but to introduce you to this online, course that is based on real time investing, I am knocking $102 off the subscription. Plus you receive the $29.95 report “Three Currency Patterns For 50% Profits or More” and the $39.95 report “The Silver Dip 2017 free.

Triple Guarantee

Enroll in Pi. Get the first monthly issue of Pi, and the report “Three Currency Patterns For 50% Profits or More” and “The Silver Dip 2016” right away.

#1: I guarantee you’ll learn ideas about investing that are unique and can reduce stress as they help you enhance your profits through slow, worry free purposeful investing.

If you are not totally happy, simply let me know.

#2: I guarantee you can cancel your subscription within 60 days and I’ll refund your subscription fee in full, no questions asked.

#3: I guarantee you can keep “Three Currency Patterns For 50% Profits or More” and “The Silver Dip 2106” report as my thanks for trying.

You have nothing to lose except the fear. You have the ultimate form of financial security to gain.

Gain From the Volatility of the Next Four Years

However America’s politics turn out, one thing is sure. There will be volatility in stock markets during the next four years.

The first reason markets will bounce has nothing to do with politics or policies. The market’s downward shift is simply due regardless of the party or the person in office.

Second the new politics will create an uncertain era. Everyone is shaken whether they are pleased with the election or not and nothing frightens markets like uncertainty.

Third we’ll see rising interest rates over the next 48 months. This will push markets down.

Despite these pitfalls, there is a way to profit using the downtrends to pick up good value shares.

During nearly five decades of global investing I have noticed found that good value strategies increase through bull markets and bear, through good presidents and bad. The steps to take are simple.

The first tactic is to seek safety before profit.

We can look at Warren Buffett’s investing strategy as an example. Buffett success is talked about a lot, but rarely does anyone explain how he make so much money. That was the fact until some researchers really stripped his operation bare. They looked at everything and learned the deepest of Buffett’s wealth management secrets. Fortunately they published all in a research paper at Yale University’s website. that reveals important truths about extending wealth.

This research shows that the stocks Buffett chooses are safe (with low beta and low volatility), cheap (value stocks with low price – to – book ratios), and high quality (stocks of companies that are profitable, stable, growing, and with high payout ratios).

The second tactic is to maintain staying power. At times Buffet’s portfolio has fallen, but he has been willing and able to wait long periods for the value to reveal itself and prices to recover.

This chart based on a 45 year portfolio study shows that holding a diversified good value portfolio (based on a good value strategy) for 13 month’s time, increases the probability of outperformance to 70%. However those who can hold the portfolio for five years gain a 88% probability of beating the bellwether in the market and after ten years the probability increases to 97.5%. Time is your friend when you use a good value strategy. The longer you can hold onto a well balanced good value portfolio the better the odds of outstanding success.

The Buffett strategy integrates time and value for safety and profit.

A third tactic is using limited leveraging, tactic in the strategy boosts profit. Buffett leverages his portfolio at a ratio of approximately 1.6 to 1. The Yale published research paper shows the leveraging methods used by Warren Buffett to amass his $50 billion fortune. The researchers found that the returns from Buffett’s investment company, Berkshire Hathaway, far outweighed those achieved by any rival that has operated for 30 years or more. The research shows that neither luck nor magic are involved. Instead, the paper shows that Buffet’s success hinges on using leverage at the rate of 1.6.

To sum up the strategy, Buffet uses limited leverage to invest in large purchases of “cheap, safe, quality stocks”. He limits leverage so he can hold on for very long periods of time, surviving rough periods where others might have been forced into a fire sale or a career shift.

Stated in another way buffet uses logic (buy good value) to have the conviction, wherewithal, and skill to invest with leverage over many decades.

What do we do when we are not Warren Buffett?

May I introduce the Purposeful Investing Course (Pi) for those who want to invest like Warren Buffet, but know they are not. This course is based on my 50 (almost) years of investing experience combined with wisdom gained from some of the world’s best investment managers and economic mathematical scientists.

Enjoy Extending Wealth

Pi’s mission is to make it easy for anyone to create a three point strategy, like Buffett’s even though they do not have a lot of time for or knowledge about investing.

Pi reveals investing secrets and the sciences that make investing easy, safer, less time consuming and increases the chances of profit.

One secret is to invest with a purpose beyond the cash. One tactic as mentioned is staying power. This means not being caught short and having to sell during a period of loss. This also means having enough faith in a strategy that we stick to the plan. When we invest with purpose, doing what we love, we enjoy the process more and are more likely to hold on during down times, when most poor investors panic and sell.

Slow, Worry Free, Good Value Investing

Stress, worry and fear are three of an investor’s worst enemies. They create the Behavior Gap, a trait exhibited by most investors, that causes them to underperform any market sector they choose. The behavior gap is created by natural human responses to fear. Pi helps create profitable strategies that avoid losses from this gap.

Spanning the Behavior Gap

Behavior gaps are among the biggest reasons why so many investors fail. Human evolution makes fear the second most powerful motivator. (Greed is the third.) Fear creates investment losses due to behavior gaps. Fear motivates us more strongly than desire. By nature investors are risk adverse.

Winning investors though embrace risk because they have a plan based on good value.

Purpose is the most powerful motivator, stronger than fear and greed, so a strategy with purpose is the most powerful of all.

Combine your needs and capabilities with good value secrets and the math to back up your value selections through the Pifolio – The Pi Model Portfolio

Lessons from Pi are based on the creation and management of a Primary Pi Model Portfolio, called the Pifolio. There are no secrets about this portfolio except that it ignores the stories (often created by someone with vested interests) and is based entirely on good math.

The Pifolio is a theoretical portfolio of MSCI Country Benchmark Index ETFs that cover all the good value markets using my (almost) 50 years of global experience and my study of the analysis of four mathematical investing geniuses (and friends).

The Pifolio analysis begins with a continual research of international major stock markets that compares their value based on:

#1: Current book to price

#2: Cash flow to price

#3: Earnings to price

#4: Average dividend yield

#5: Return on equity

#6: Cash flow return.

#7: Market history

We follow this research of a brilliant mathematician and have tracked this analysis for over 20 years. This is a complete and continual study of international major and emerging stock markets.

This analysis forms the basis of a Good Value Stock Market Strategy. The analysis is rational, mathematical and does not worry about short term ups and downs. This strategy is easy for anyone to follow and use. Pi reveals the best value markets and provides contacts to managers and analysts and Country Index ETFs so almost anyone can create and follow their own strategy.

A country ETF provides diversification and cost efficiency by spreading one simple, even small investment into a basket of equities in a good value stock market. The costs are low and this type of ETF is one of the hardest for institutions to cheat. Expense ratios for most ETFs are lower than those of the average mutual fund.

Little knowledge, time, management or guesswork are required. The investment is simply a diversified portfolio of good value indices. Investments in an index are like investments in all the shares of a good value market.

Pi matches this mathematical certainty with my fifty years of experience. This opens insights to numerous long term cycles that most investors miss because they have not been investing long enough to see them.

For example in the 1980s, a remarkable set of two economic circumstances helped anyone who spotted them become remarkably rich. Some of my readers made enough to retire. Others picked up 50% currency gains. Then the cycle ended. Warren Buffett explained the importance of this ending in a 1999 Fortune magazine interview. He said: Let me summarize what I’ve been saying about the stock market: I think it’s very hard to come up with a persuasive case that equities will over the next 17 years perform anything like—anything like—they’ve performed in the past 17!

I did well then, but always thought, “I should have invested more!” Now those circumstances have come together and I am investing in them again.

The circumstances that created fortunes 30 years ago were an overvalued US market (compared to global markets) and an overvalued US dollar.

The two conditions are in place again! There are currently ten good value (non US) developed markets, plus 10 good value emerging markets.

Pi shows how to easily create a diversified, worry free portfolio in some of these good value markets using Country Index ETFs.

The current strength of the US dollar is a second remarkable similarity to 30 years ago. The dollar rose along with Wall Street. Profits came quickly over three years. Then the dollar dropped like a stone, by 51% in just two years. A repeat of this pattern is growing and could create up to 50% extra profit if we start using strong dollars to accumulate good value stock market ETFs in other currencies.

This is the most exciting opportunity I have seen since we started sending our reports on international investing ideas more than three decades ago. There is so much more to write and the trends are so clear that I have created a short, but powerful report “Three Currency Patterns For 50% Profits or More.” This report shows how to earn an extra 50% from currency shifts with even small investments. I kept the report short and simple, but included links to 153 pages of Good Value Stock Market research and Asset Allocation Analysis.

The report shows 20 good value investments and a really powerful tactic that shows the most effective and least expensive way to accumulate these bargains in large or even very small amounts (less than $5,000). There is extra profit potential of at least 50% so the report is worth a lot.

This report sells for $29.95 but you’ll receive the report “Three Currency Patterns For 50% Profits or More” FREE when you subscribe to Pi.

Leverage

Pi also explains when leverage provides extra potential without undo risk. For example in 1986 I issued a report called “The Silver Dip” that showed how to borrow 12,000 British pounds (at almost 1.6 to 1 dollars per pound the loan created US$18,600) and use the loan to buy 3835 ounces of silver at around US$4.85 an ounce.

Silver had crashed, I mean really crashed from $48 per ounce. As prices decreased from early 1983 into 1986, total supply had fallen to 449.7 million ounces in 1986. Mine production was restricted by the low prices at this time, with silver reaching a low for this period of $4.85 in May 1986. Secondary recovery also was constricted by these low prices.

Then silver’s price skyrocketed to over $11 an ounce within a year. The $18,600 loan was now worth $42,185.

The loan was in pounds and in May 1986 the dollar pound rate was 1.55 dollars per pound. So the 12,000 pound loan purchased $18,600 of silver. The pound then crashed to 1.40 dollars per silver. The loan could be paid off for $13,285 immediately creating an extra $5,314 profit. The profit grew to $47,499 in just a year.

Conditions for the silver dip have returned. The availability of low cost loans and silver are at an all time low. The price of silver has crashed from nearly $50 an ounce to below $14 as did shares of the iShares Silver ETF (SLV).

(Click on chart from Google.com (1) to enlarge.) Imagine investing in a spike like this… with leverage!

At the same time the silver gold ratio hit 80, a strong sign to invest in precious metals.

I have updated a special report “Silver Dip 2016” about a leveraged silver speculation that can increase the returns in a safe portfolio by as much as eight times. The purpose of the report is to share long term lessons gained through 30 years of speculating and investing in precious metals. While working on the report, when the gold silver ratio slipped to 80 and the price of silver dropped below $14 an ounce, I knew I needed to share this immediately.

I released a new report “Silver Dip 2015” so readers were able to take advantage of these conditions and leverage 1.6 times as a speculation. That report generated profits as high as 212% and a revised 2017 issue has been produced.

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